Former player backs team

1:21 AM,
Oct. 20, 2013

The Grambling State slogan outside of Eddie G. Robinson Stadium on the university's campus.

Written by

Matt Vines and
Sean Isabella

Two band members wearing Grambling sweatshirts marched down Central Ave. on Grambling's campus, one's trombone slide gliding back and forth as notes bellowed in the Saturday afternoon air.

On a normal fall Saturday, the pair would be two of several hundred members of The World Famed Grambling State University Tiger Marching Band blasting fan-favorite music.

But this Saturday was different after Grambling forfeited Saturday's game against Jackson State as the football team continued its protest of what it says is mistreatment by the university's administration. ...